•As a result of our successful fundraiser and summer workshop series, I’m happy to announce that we’re hiring two additional full-time researchers later in 2015: Mihaly Barasz and Scott Garrabrant!
General updates

•We’ve wrapped up our largest fundraiser ever: 256 donors brought in a total of $617,678! Thanks to you, we’ve hit our first two fundraising goals and received $117,678 that will go toward our third goal: Taking MIRI to the Next Level. (These number may increase over the next week as we add any donations we receive that were initiated before the end of the fundraiser.)

•“If you agree AI matters, why MIRI?” Two new replies to this question: Assessing Our Past and Potential Impact and What Sets MIRI Apart?

•We’re moving to a larger office in the same building this October. If you have experience in office planning or access control systems and would like to help out with our plans, shoot Malo an email at malo@intelligence.org.

News and links •GiveWell publishes its initial review of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, as well as a new article on the long-term significance of reducing global catastrophic risks.

•Stuart Russell explains the AI alignment problem in a San Francisco talk and in a (paywalled) interview in Science.

•A much earlier discusion of the AI control problem in a 1960 Science article.